The meeting began with a presentation by Superintendent Murray on the 2022-2023 Annual Education Results Report. During that presentation, Murray shared encouraging reports on student progress using report card data, as well as Provincial Achievement Test scores and Diploma Exam results in both literacy and numeracy.
An area of concern for the Division, explained Murray, remains student attendance. According to 2022-2023 data just under 10 per cent of PRSD non-Indigenous students and nearly 30 per cent of Indigenous students attended school less than 75 per cent of the time.
"If a student is attending school less than a quarter of the time, in four years, they have missed an entire year of school," Murray said.
Looking to the high school data and graduation rates, Murray also concluded that PRSD data shows the longer a student stays with the PRSD, the more successful they become. For this reason alone, Murray encouraged the principals and school council members present to work on strategies to improve attendance rates at every PRSD school.
